doce

• dotze

From Old Navarro-Aragonese doze, from Latin duodecim.

doce

1. twelve

• dolce

From Latin duodecim.

doce (indeclinable)

1. twelve

• docenu

doce

1. feminine singular of dox

• Hyphenation: do‧ce

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.

doce (indeclinable)

1. twelve

doce f pl (plural only)

1. (always preceded by the definite article) twelve o'clock

   Synonym: doce en punto

   Son as doce ― It's twelve o'clock.

• ducia

From Old Galician-Portuguese doce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”).

• dulce (proscribed)

doce m or f (plural doces)

1. sweet
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Dime algùnha còusa dòce
     como habes doito, é catá,
     que si así no no fazèdes,
     me escatìmo, é velo hàs.
     Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
     como estas cousas se fàn,
     è madia tendes, senon
     eu êime de encabuxar.

     Tell me something sweet
     As you use to, but beware,
     if you don't do it like that
     I'll take offence, you'll see.
     You know well, it could not be otherwise!
     how these things are done,
     no doubt about it or else
     I'll get angry.

• auga doce
• herba doce

doce m (plural doces)

1. sweet (candy), confection

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “doce”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “doce”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “doce”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “doce”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

docē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of doceō

• "doce", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Inherited from Latin dulcem. Compare Sicilian duci.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈɾoːt͡ʃə]

doce

1. sweet

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1266: “una mela dolce” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• doçe

From Latin dulcem, accusative of dulcis (“sweet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdot͡se/
• Rhymes: -ot͡se
• Hyphenation: do‧ce

doce m or f (plural doces)

1. sweet
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 278 (facsimile):

     […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]

     […] which are sweeter than honey […]

• Fala: doci
• Galician: doce
• Portuguese: doce (see there for further descendants)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “doce”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “doce”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese doce, from Latin dulcem (“sweet”). Doublet of Dulce.

Compare Guaraní doce and Sicilian duci.

• Hyphenation: do‧ce

doce m or f (plural doces)

1. sweet
   • 1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa:

     Quando eu me sento à janela
     P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça
     Vejo a doce imagem d'ela
     Quando passa… passa… passa…

     When I sit at the window
     I see through the panes clouded by snow
     The sweet image of her
     When she passes… passes… passes…

   • 2010, Marcial Serrano, O Livro Proibido do Jiu Jitsu: Volume 3, Clube de Autores, page 40:

     Enquanto isso vai tomando o doce saqué, em minúsculas tijelinhas^[sic] brancas, quase do tamanho de um dedal.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Macanese: dóci
• >? Papiamentu: dushi
• Sãotomense: dochi

doce m (plural doces)

1. sweet, candy
2. (Brazil, slang) LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

• → Hunsrik: Doss

• “doce”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish doze, dodze from Latin duodecim. Compare English dozen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoθe/ [ˈd̪o.θe] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdose/ [ˈd̪o.se] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -oθe (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ose (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: do‧ce

doce

1. twelve

• → Cebuano: dose
• → Tagalog: dose

• “doce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024